The Layout at Speedway & Houghton Rd

After the Feather River N-ginner's club at DM AFB was dissasembled the layout and club needed to re-locate. Most of the Feather River layout was never reassembled, parts of it was saved a taken to the new location. The new layout would be set up in an 'E' shape. As you can see from construction photos, the layout was mostly just a bunch of ntrak modules hooked together to form each penisula. This layout was based out of club member Jim Jones's three car garage near Speedway and Houghton Rd. The club has met there ever since 2002 and we got alot done in that time. The layout was wired for both DC and Digitrax DCC systems, but ever since Digitrax the club hardly used DC running. This layout has now been disasembled as of May 2005, the layout had to be dissasembled because Jim has moved to another Tucson location with no room for the layout. Most of it has been saved or put in storage till we find another home to put it in. Here are pictures of the layout.

The Old Layout (in its most finished condition)

Overview shot of the layout in the 3 car garage
Overview of layout
The coal mine, on the Mountain Line loop
The double track cement bridge, and next to it
is the steel narrow gauge track (unfinished)

An empty yard
Skilled Craftsman Gary built this timber bridge
From scatch, by hand, it was saved from the DMAFB
and merged into the layout at 620
Coal mine with some Cement ties
Coal Mine

Passenger Station
Passenger Station road
Coming out of the passenger station hiting the first
Set of grade
Timber Bridge

A CN&W auto train applies brake pressure while
moving under the narrow gauge bridge, which was never
completed
The CN&W auto train is pops out of the tunnel below the
Coal Mine
A MetroLink commuter rushes to get passengers home
A AT&SF auto train is waiting to get out of the siding

A almost full yard
Coal Mine
Some Suzy Q's roall by the passenger station
BN takes a grain train down grade

A custom painted SPSF SD40 takes a pig train up the hill
Suzy Q's are at the peak of the layout starting descent
BNSF goes through Keddie
BNSF blows the horn as the train heads into the passenger depot area

Poking out
The Final Run of the layout, these were the last trains to run before
the layout was taken down, John S. train
The Final Run of the layout, these were the last trains to run before
the layout was taken down, Pat L. train
The Final Run of the layout, these were the last trains to run before
the layout was taken down, John S. train

The Final Run of the layout, these were the last trains to run before
the layout was taken down, Paul W. train

The same layout during construction (around 2002)

Both of the Jim's
Overview
The boss at work
Timber bridge, just being merged in

The yard area and roundhouse
The crew
Jim J working on the X
The far end

Concrete Bridge
The Crew
The Mountain Line Subdivision/loop

Overview shot of the layout in the 3 car garage	Overview of layout	The coal mine, on the Mountain Line loop	The double track cement bridge, and next to it is the steel narrow gauge track (unfinished)
An empty yard	Skilled Craftsman Gary built this timber bridge From scatch, by hand, it was saved from the DMAFB and merged into the layout at 620	Coal mine with some Cement ties	Coal Mine
Passenger Station	Passenger Station road	Coming out of the passenger station hiting the first Set of grade	Timber Bridge
A CN&W auto train applies brake pressure while moving under the narrow gauge bridge, which was never completed	The CN&W auto train is pops out of the tunnel below the Coal Mine	A MetroLink commuter rushes to get passengers home	A AT&SF auto train is waiting to get out of the siding
A almost full yard	Coal Mine	Some Suzy Q's roall by the passenger station	BN takes a grain train down grade
A custom painted SPSF SD40 takes a pig train up the hill	Suzy Q's are at the peak of the layout starting descent	BNSF goes through Keddie	BNSF blows the horn as the train heads into the passenger depot area
Poking out	The Final Run of the layout, these were the last trains to run before the layout was taken down, John S. train	The Final Run of the layout, these were the last trains to run before the layout was taken down, Pat L. train	The Final Run of the layout, these were the last trains to run before the layout was taken down, John S. train
The Final Run of the layout, these were the last trains to run before the layout was taken down, Paul W. train

Both of the Jim's	Overview	The boss at work	Timber bridge, just being merged in
The yard area and roundhouse	The crew	Jim J working on the X	The far end
Concrete Bridge	The Crew	The Mountain Line Subdivision/loop